British-American Mezzo-Soprano Louisa Stuart-Smith is currently studying at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama for the Artist Diploma in Vocal Performance under the tutelage of Professor Yvonne Kenny. Louisa is grateful to be a Sidney Perry Foundation Scholar and to be generously supported by the Worshipful Company of Chartered Surveyors and the Josephine Baker Trust. She recently graduated from the MPerf in Vocal Performance at GSMD with Distinction, during which she held a Guildhall School Trust Scholarship.

Louisa has performed widely in concert as a soloist, including with the Carnegie Ensemble from the BBC Symphony Orchestra in their annual Baroque concerts, and looks forward to their fifth concert together this December. In oratorios, she has sung the Mezzo-Soprano Soloist in Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle in Romsey Abbey (2024) and the Alto Soloist in Dixit Dominus in St John’s College Chapel (2022). This year she will make several oratorio debuts, including as the Alto Soloist in Handel’s Messiah with the London Mozart Players at the Mayfield Festival and with the Grange Choral Society and Orchestra in Christchurch. Her solo recital work this season has involved collaboration with Roderick Williams at the prestigious 22 Mansfield Street Salon and, in 2025, will involve collaboration with Graham Johnson. Most recently, she won a Runner-Up prize (Encouragement Award) in the Maryland District of the Metropolitan Opera’s Laffont Competition (2024), was the winner of the Audience Prize in the Chartered Surveyors’ Vocal Competition (2024) and won a Runner-Up prize in the Finals of the London Bach Society’s Bach Singers Prize Competition (2024).

Recent operatic performances include covering the the role of Dorabella in the Teatro Lorenzo Da Ponte’s production of Cosí Fan Tutte (2024) and performing the title roles in Serse (2022), Rinaldo (2021) and Giulio Cesare in Egitto (2019), as well as the roles of Cherubino in Le Nozze di Figaro (2021), L’Architecture in Les Arts Florissants (2019) and La Damigella in La Liberazione di Ruggiero (2020). Louisa’s operetta and acting roles have included Little Buttercup in H.M.S. Pinafore (Minack Theatre, 2021), Tessa in The Gondoliers (2022), Peep-Bo in The Mikado (2019) and Joan in Saint Joan (ADC Theatre 2019), as well as performing regularly in comedy sketch shows with the Cambridge Footlights.

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